Tribble Ad Agency: Microsoft Makes $20 billion dollar bid for Linux based Yahoo
Oz
· 1 year ago
Well, I never thought I would say I am happy if Microsoft will acquire Yahoo! . But your suggestion is absolutely great. Let Microsoft buy Yahoo!, I bet the ego maniacs in Redmond will spend tons of money and time on the adventure of migrating all the servers to Microsoft Servers. This will be great, they will spend money on almost unaccomplished task, which for sure help throw them away to the garbage bin of history...
Trent Treviso
· 1 year ago
When Microsoft bought Hotmail in 2000, they insisted on converting Hotmail's Unix servers to Windows Server 2000. The result was several years of slow, unreliable email service with frequent outages. It gave Hotmail a bad reputation, and caused many existing subscribers to defect to competitors.
There can be no doubt that Microsoft will convert Yahoo from Linux to Windows. And there can be no doubt that that will cause no end of trouble for them. Also, since Yahoo is a Linux shop, look for Microsoft to lay off much of Yahoo's IT staff.
The Hotmail debacle was a much smaller scale of conversion than will be the Yahoo conversion. So, look for a much bigger debacle this time.
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This will be great, they will spend money on almost unaccomplished task, which for sure help throw them away to the garbage bin of history...
There can be no doubt that Microsoft will convert Yahoo from Linux to Windows. And there can be no doubt that that will cause no end of trouble for them. Also, since Yahoo is a Linux shop, look for Microsoft to lay off much of Yahoo's IT staff.
The Hotmail debacle was a much smaller scale of conversion than will be the Yahoo conversion. So, look for a much bigger debacle this time.
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